"import past" is too damn slow

[giampaolo]

$ cat foo.py 
import time
t = time.time()
import past
print time.time() - t
$ python foo.py 
1.248811864853

Note that because of this, also simple and apparently innocuous import statements such as from past.utils import PY3 are very slow.
I tried to debug this a little and it seems this is slow because "import past" causes translations/__init__.py to be imported and in there different lib2to3 fixers are automatically executed.
IMHO just importing any module from the "past" namespace should not take this long (and more definitively not if I'm just importing something as common as "PY3", or "unicode"). I would expect that if any lib2to3 operation has to take place it should occur only if I'm explicitly invoking something like install_aliases().

[edschofield]

Thanks for the report, @giampaolo! This is now fixed in v0.14.2.